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By Lee Snyder Volume 57 Number 11 The Illinois Board of Higher Education recommended Tuesday that the Illinois State Scholarship Commission maximum award be raised to $1800. According to the Illinois Board of Higher Education, increases in the maximum award are necessary to provide reasonable freedom of choice for students among public and nonpublic colleges and universities. Since 1972, the average community college tuition has increased $121 (48%), public university tuition has risen $93 (21.3%), and private institution tuition has grown $910 (53%). This increase in the maximum award of $150 from the current maximum of $1650 will be funded, under the board's recommendation, by $4.1 million. The total recommended monetary award program in the State Grant Athletic Dept. Hike to*1800 A Possibility fiscal year of 1980 will amount to $84.1 million. The increase will be supported by Governor Thompson because on October 14, 1978 Thompson special assistant to the Governor for Education, Robert Corcoran, announced Thompson's support at the Annual Illinois Students of Independent Colleges and Universities (ISICU) meeting held at DePaul. The board also recommended that $4.9 million be appropriated for summer awards in the fiscal year of 1980, a program not funded since 1975. There is a possibility of awards for summer, 1979, and according to the board, "although the ISSC will not make a final determination concerning summer for the fiscal year of 1979 until February, 1979 the projected 1979 expenditures for ISSC assumed funding for a summer program." Ten Best MmiSi'Of 1978 The 1 DePaulia COLN "P£Kt\ —L" In other action, the board recommended that the ISSC budget include $2.0 million for merit scholarships. The $1,000 scholarships would be awarded annually for academic ability based on aptitude test scores and high school achievement. The board advocated an "incentive and reward for scholarly achievement" to improve the quality of higher education as encouraged by the board's "master plan." The ISSC experienced difficulty the last two years in processing awards. As of December 6, 1978, 11,000 students had not been paid state scholarship money. Dr. Joseph Boyd, executive director of the ISSC, blamed inexperienced computer operators for the delay. Board member Redondo remarked that he thought Boyd "would be running out of excuses by now." In September, Student Advisory Committee (SAC) Opens By Steve Hudomlet The Alumni Hall gym floor will be available for open gym two nights a week, the athletic department announced recently.The facility had been closed to open gym use since the beginning of the 1978-79 academic year. According to Assistant Athletic Director John Lawler, the athletic department was never against open gym at Alumni Hall, as some have contended. "We never opposed open gym here," Lawler said. "We just didn't have time available for an open gym to be scheduled."Lawler and Athletic Director Rev. Robert Gielow, C.M. ex­ Maintenance supervisor Jamee Flanagan aide the Stuart Center's drainage problem by removing hang- passed a resolution to the board censuring the ISSC for its delays and ordered a report be undertaken on the ISSC. The Board of Higher Education was addressed on November 14, 1978 on behalf of ISICU and SAC, and with the help of Linda Haraf, DePaul's financial aid director, listed inadequacies of the ISSC, stated students have had to drop out of college, and resolved that all award announcements be made on or before January 1, 1979. During a SAC meeting last Saturday at the University of January 12, 1979 Alumni Hall for Gym plained that the scheduling of open gym at Alumni Hall was made possible by the shifting of some intramural programs slated for Alumni Hali to the Hayes-Healy gym. Gielow stated, "We could not handle the full intramural program and open gym too. There just isn't time." Lawler added that Alumni Hall would be open on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings from 7 to 10 p.m., unless an event is slated. Gielow indicated that a December meeting between students and the athletic department helped resolve a lot of the differences that developed concerning the open gym issue.See Page 5 fng lelclee from the courtyard and constructing Ice sculptures with them. (Photo by Ed Blanco) Illinois Medical Center, Dr. Boyd said that all of the 11,000 applications' that needed to be processed by the end of the calendar year, only those needing further review remained to be processed. Boyd also stated that 7,000 applications for the 1979-80 school year have been processed. ISICU and SAC are currently working to pass a bill in Springfield which will place a student on the ISSC Board of Directors, and at the annual ISICU meeting, it was confirmed that Governor Thompson will support this measure. "The meeting allowed people to see the facts that weren't seen from the beginning," Gielow said. Gielow indicated that claims that Alumni Hall was closed to open gym in order to protect the newly painted gym floor were untrue. "The issue came down to not having enough time to schedule everything studentswanted," Gielow said. Jerry Haderlein, SGA president who was present at the December meeting agreed that the meeting was indeed helpful."We talked about the open gym issue and worked out the compromise of moving some (Turn to page 3)

By Lee Snyder Volume 57 Number 11 The Illinois Board of Higher Education recommended Tuesday that the Illinois State Scholarship Commission maximum award be raised to $1800. According to the Illinois Board of Higher Education, increases in the maximum award are necessary to provide reasonable freedom of choice for students among public and nonpublic colleges and universities. Since 1972, the average community college tuition has increased $121 (48%), public university tuition has risen $93 (21.3%), and private institution tuition has grown $910 (53%). This increase in the maximum award of $150 from the current maximum of $1650 will be funded, under the board's recommendation, by $4.1 million. The total recommended monetary award program in the State Grant Athletic Dept. Hike to*1800 A Possibility fiscal year of 1980 will amount to $84.1 million. The increase will be supported by Governor Thompson because on October 14, 1978 Thompson special assistant to the Governor for Education, Robert Corcoran, announced Thompson's support at the Annual Illinois Students of Independent Colleges and Universities (ISICU) meeting held at DePaul. The board also recommended that $4.9 million be appropriated for summer awards in the fiscal year of 1980, a program not funded since 1975. There is a possibility of awards for summer, 1979, and according to the board, "although the ISSC will not make a final determination concerning summer for the fiscal year of 1979 until February, 1979 the projected 1979 expenditures for ISSC assumed funding for a summer program." Ten Best MmiSi'Of 1978 The 1 DePaulia COLN "P£Kt\ —L" In other action, the board recommended that the ISSC budget include $2.0 million for merit scholarships. The $1,000 scholarships would be awarded annually for academic ability based on aptitude test scores and high school achievement. The board advocated an "incentive and reward for scholarly achievement" to improve the quality of higher education as encouraged by the board's "master plan." The ISSC experienced difficulty the last two years in processing awards. As of December 6, 1978, 11,000 students had not been paid state scholarship money. Dr. Joseph Boyd, executive director of the ISSC, blamed inexperienced computer operators for the delay. Board member Redondo remarked that he thought Boyd "would be running out of excuses by now." In September, Student Advisory Committee (SAC) Opens By Steve Hudomlet The Alumni Hall gym floor will be available for open gym two nights a week, the athletic department announced recently.The facility had been closed to open gym use since the beginning of the 1978-79 academic year. According to Assistant Athletic Director John Lawler, the athletic department was never against open gym at Alumni Hall, as some have contended. "We never opposed open gym here," Lawler said. "We just didn't have time available for an open gym to be scheduled."Lawler and Athletic Director Rev. Robert Gielow, C.M. ex­ Maintenance supervisor Jamee Flanagan aide the Stuart Center's drainage problem by removing hang- passed a resolution to the board censuring the ISSC for its delays and ordered a report be undertaken on the ISSC. The Board of Higher Education was addressed on November 14, 1978 on behalf of ISICU and SAC, and with the help of Linda Haraf, DePaul's financial aid director, listed inadequacies of the ISSC, stated students have had to drop out of college, and resolved that all award announcements be made on or before January 1, 1979. During a SAC meeting last Saturday at the University of January 12, 1979 Alumni Hall for Gym plained that the scheduling of open gym at Alumni Hall was made possible by the shifting of some intramural programs slated for Alumni Hali to the Hayes-Healy gym. Gielow stated, "We could not handle the full intramural program and open gym too. There just isn't time." Lawler added that Alumni Hall would be open on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings from 7 to 10 p.m., unless an event is slated. Gielow indicated that a December meeting between students and the athletic department helped resolve a lot of the differences that developed concerning the open gym issue.See Page 5 fng lelclee from the courtyard and constructing Ice sculptures with them. (Photo by Ed Blanco) Illinois Medical Center, Dr. Boyd said that all of the 11,000 applications' that needed to be processed by the end of the calendar year, only those needing further review remained to be processed. Boyd also stated that 7,000 applications for the 1979-80 school year have been processed. ISICU and SAC are currently working to pass a bill in Springfield which will place a student on the ISSC Board of Directors, and at the annual ISICU meeting, it was confirmed that Governor Thompson will support this measure. "The meeting allowed people to see the facts that weren't seen from the beginning," Gielow said. Gielow indicated that claims that Alumni Hall was closed to open gym in order to protect the newly painted gym floor were untrue. "The issue came down to not having enough time to schedule everything studentswanted," Gielow said. Jerry Haderlein, SGA president who was present at the December meeting agreed that the meeting was indeed helpful."We talked about the open gym issue and worked out the compromise of moving some (Turn to page 3)